> I would suggest that, if this person wants to climb the regular list, he
> switch to double-checking, switching over two or three machines a
> day. This
> would gain him credit twice as fast /and/ he would still climb in the
> rankings daily, or very nearly so.
Why? That's what's great about GIMPS. We all get to choose what we like to
do best. Some like to factor, some like to double check and others like to
do the LL tests. Personally, I enjoy the factoring :)
> I don't honestly know what to say... The real reason some of us might be
> annoyed is that there are machines out there, such as 486's and low
> Pentiums, that cannot deal with the current 10 M LL tests, or
> even, in the
> case of the 486s and some K-6s, the 5-6 M doublechecks.
> Fortunately, I do
> not have such a machine, however those who do would be understandibly, if
> maybe not rightly, annoyed that someone with large numbers of
> fast machines
> that can easily do LL work has chosen to not only do factoring,
> but to cache
> an amount of factoring work that would normally take GIMPS as a
> whole months
> to finish.
Well, I can understand the part about not getting exponents that are lower
numbers and as it's been said, it's because I used the FactorOverride
feature which caused this "problem". But if people are annoyed that I'm
choosing to factor, well, I apologize, but they'll have to get over it. No
offense intended but as I said, that's what is great about GIMPS. We all
get to choose what we want to work on.
G-Man
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